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Understanding 9/11The history of science fiction
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xxii, 524 pages : 25 cm
Thorough revision and expansion of the first edition, tracing the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century, with a new chapter discussing 21st-century science fiction and new material in every chapter
Includes bibliographical references and index
Definitions -- SF and the ancient novel -- From Medieval romance to sixteenth-century utopia -- Seventeenth-century SF -- Eighteenth-century SF: big, little -- Early 19th-century SF -- SF 1850-1900: mobility and mobilisation -- Verne and Wells -- The early 20th century, 1: high modernist SF -- The early 20th century, 2: the pulps -- Golden Age SF: 1940-1960 -- The impact of the New Wave: SF of the 1960s and 1970s -- SF screen media, 1960-2000: Hollywood cinema and TV -- Prose SF of the 1980s and 1990s -- Late 20th century SF: Multimedia, visual SF and others -- 21st-century science fiction
Thorough revision and expansion of the first edition, tracing the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century, with a new chapter discussing 21st-century science fiction and new material in every chapter
Includes bibliographical references and index
Definitions -- SF and the ancient novel -- From Medieval romance to sixteenth-century utopia -- Seventeenth-century SF -- Eighteenth-century SF: big, little -- Early 19th-century SF -- SF 1850-1900: mobility and mobilisation -- Verne and Wells -- The early 20th century, 1: high modernist SF -- The early 20th century, 2: the pulps -- Golden Age SF: 1940-1960 -- The impact of the New Wave: SF of the 1960s and 1970s -- SF screen media, 1960-2000: Hollywood cinema and TV -- Prose SF of the 1980s and 1990s -- Late 20th century SF: Multimedia, visual SF and others -- 21st-century science fiction
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